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Ecosystem services value: a literature review

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  • Bartolomeo Toffano

    (Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

  • M. Bruna Zolin

    (Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

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The paper aims to analyse the literature on ecosystem services and on payments for ecological services focusing on the pollination case study by highlighting the economic approaches most used in the evaluation of tangible and intangible environmental services. Agriculture guarantees food security and, to some extent, energy security, often at the expense of other ecosystem services. Remedying the negative consequences of intensive agriculture requires the identification of products and services deriving from eco-sustainable land management and their financial value (the so-called Payments for ecological systems). The literature agrees in recognizing a value to ecological services produced by sustainable agricultural management systems; however, different methods are applied.

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  • Bartolomeo Toffano & M. Bruna Zolin, 2021. "Ecosystem services value: a literature review," Working Papers 2021:07, Department of Economics, University of Venice "Ca' Foscari".
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    JEL classification:

    • Q57 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Ecological Economics
    • Q24 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Land
    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy
    • R14 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Land Use Patterns
    • Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy

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